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Feb
19
exprophecy asked:
So I was thinking. If there was a large group of people about 1 million people who gathered together to try and win the MEGA lottery. So each person bought 100 lottery tickets and they all made sure they had different combinations of the numbers from each other (by entering them in a computer system, theoretically). Now, stated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics , there is a 1 in 13,983,816 of one person getting the exact numbers. Now since we have this computer system with people getting ALL different combinations, what would be the exact mathematical probability of the group actually winning the lottery? I know there should be a mathematical equation for solving this but I was wondering if some math genius in Yahoo Answers can answer this. Thanks!
Laura
So I was thinking. If there was a large group of people about 1 million people who gathered together to try and win the MEGA lottery. So each person bought 100 lottery tickets and they all made sure they had different combinations of the numbers from each other (by entering them in a computer system, theoretically). Now, stated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics , there is a 1 in 13,983,816 of one person getting the exact numbers. Now since we have this computer system with people getting ALL different combinations, what would be the exact mathematical probability of the group actually winning the lottery? I know there should be a mathematical equation for solving this but I was wondering if some math genius in Yahoo Answers can answer this. Thanks!
Laura
